High Class Moving Pictures

Author : Charles Musser,Carol Nelson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400872725

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High-Class Moving Pictures by Charles Musser,Carol Nelson Pdf

The entrepreneur of phonograph concerts and motion-picture programs Lyman H. Howe was the leading traveling exhibitor of his time and the exemplar of an important but until now little examined aspect of American popular culture. This work, with its numerous and lively illustrations, uses his career to explore the world of itinerant showmen, who exhibited all motion pictures seen outside large cities during the 1890s and early 1900s. They frequently built cultural alliances with genteel city dwellers or conservative churchgoers and in later years favored "high-class" topics appealing to audiences uncomfortable with the plebeian nickelodeons. Bridging the fields of American studies and film history, the book reveals the remarkable sophistication with which exhibitors created their elaborate, evening-length programs to convey powerful ideological messages. Whether depicting the Spanish-American War, the 1900 Paris Exposition, or British colonialism in action, Howe's "cinema of reassurance" had many parallels with the music of John Philip Sousa. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0231116632

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Silent Film Sound by Rick Altman Pdf

Silent films were, of course, never silent at all. However, the sound that used to accompany the screen picture in the early days of cinema has been neglected as an area of study. Altman explores the various musical, narrative, and even synchronized sound systems that enriched cinema before Jolson spoke.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : HARVARD:HB0SGQ

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The Moving Picture World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Musser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520085337

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The Emergence of Cinema by Charles Musser Pdf

Looks at the early years of the motion picture industry through 1907.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015039589851

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Moving Picture World and View Photographer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Galey
Publisher : Winlock Galey
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1890461040

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The Grand Assembly by Mary Galey Pdf

Today the Colorado Chautauqua is one of the only remaining Chautauquas, and this is the story of that group, filled with delightful, comic, and heartwarming descriptions of life at this historic Chautauqua.

Author : David Nasaw
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674417595

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Going Out by David Nasaw Pdf

David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born and immigrant, rich, poor and middling. Only African Americans were excluded or segregated in the audience, though they were overrepresented in parodic form on stage. This stigmatization of the African American, Nasaw argues, was the glue that cemented an otherwise disparate audience, muting social distinctions among "whites," and creating a common national culture.

Author : Nancy Mowll Mathews,Charles Musser
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1555952283

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Moving Pictures by Nancy Mowll Mathews,Charles Musser Pdf

Explores the complex relationship between American art and the new medium of film.

Author : Robert Dixon
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781783080632

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Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity by Robert Dixon Pdf

‘Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity’ is not a biography of Frank Hurley the man; it is instead an examination of the social life of the many marvellous and meaningful things he made as a professional photographer and film maker. The focus of this volume surrounds the media events that encompassed these various creations – what Hurley called his ‘synchronized lecture entertainments’. These media events were at once national and international; they involved Hurley in an entire culture industry that was constantly in movement along global lines of travel and communication. This raises complex questions both about the authorship of Hurley’s photographic and filmic texts – which were often produced and presented by other people – and about their ontology, as they were often in a state of reassemblage in response to changing market opportunities. This unique study re-imagines, from inside the quiet and stillness of the archive, the prior social life enjoyed by Hurley’s creations amidst the complicated topography of the early twentieth century’s rapidly internationalizing mass-media landscape. As a way to conceive of that space, and of the social life of the people and things within it, this study uses the concept of ‘colonial modernity’.

Author : Robert K. Headley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476608518

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Motion Picture Exhibition in Washington, D.C. by Robert K. Headley Pdf

From inauspicious beginnings in the kinetoscope parlors and nickelodeons to the movie palaces of the golden era, and finally to the pared down multiplexes of today, this is the history of motion picture viewing in the nation’s capital and vicinity. The research is supported by numerous interviews. The book includes a 200-page listing of all the movie theaters in the area past and present, with data such as location, dates of operation, architect, and seating capacity, as well as a summary of each theater’s history and current status. Maps, drawings and photographs (most of which have never before been published) round out this comprehensive study.

Author : Jennifer Lynn Peterson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822378914

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Education in the School of Dreams by Jennifer Lynn Peterson Pdf

In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters. These short films, also known as "scenics," depicted tourist destinations and exotic landscapes otherwise inaccessible to most viewers. Scenics were so popular that they were briefly touted as the future of film. But despite their pervasiveness during the early twentieth century, travelogues have been overlooked by film historians and critics. In Education in the School of Dreams, Jennifer Lynn Peterson recovers this lost archive. Through innovative readings of travelogues and other nonfiction films exhibited in the United States between 1907 and 1915, she offers fresh insights into the aesthetic and commercial history of early cinema and provides a new perspective on the intersection of American culture, imperialism, and modernity in the nickelodeon era. Peterson describes the travelogue's characteristic form and style and demonstrates how imperialist ideologies were realized and reshaped through the moving image. She argues that although educational films were intended to legitimate filmgoing for middle-class audiences, travelogues were not simply vehicles for elite ideology. As a form of instructive entertainment, these technological moving landscapes were both formulaic and also wondrous and dreamlike. Considering issues of spectatorship and affect, Peterson argues that scenics produced and disrupted viewers' complacency about their own place in the world.

Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718756

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The Documentary Film Book by Brian Winston Pdf

Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies.

Author : Mario Slugan,Daniël Biltereyst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350181991

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New Perspectives on Early Cinema History by Mario Slugan,Daniël Biltereyst Pdf

In this book, editors Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst present a theoretical reconceptualization of early cinema. To do so, they highlight the latest methods and tools for analysis, and cast new light on the experience of early cinema through the application of these concepts and methods. The international host of contributors evaluate examples of early cinema across the globe, including The May Irwin Kiss (1896), Un homme de têtes (1900), The Terrible Turkish Executioner (1904) and Tom Tom the Piper's Son (1905). In doing so, they address the periodization of the era, emphasizing the recent boon in the availability of primary materials, the rise of digital technologies, the developments in new cinema history, and the persistence of some conceptualizations as key incentives for rethinking early cinema in theoretical and methodological terms. They go on to highlight cutting-edge approaches to the study of early cinema, including the use of the Mediathread Platform, the formation of new datasets with the help of digital technologies, and exploring the early era in non-western cultures. Finally, the contributors revisit early cinema audiences and exhibition contexts by investigating some of the earliest screenings in Denmark and the US, exploring the details of black cinema going in Harlem, and examining exhibition practices in Germany.

Author : Darl Larsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538160381

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Moving Pictures by Darl Larsen Pdf

A fascinating look at the history of film and television animation in the United States, from the animated comic strips of the early 1900s to the proliferation of animation companies and hit films of the present.

Author : Lee Grieveson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520937420

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Policing Cinema by Lee Grieveson Pdf

White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—all became objects of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons brought moving pictures to a broad mass public. Lee Grieveson draws on extensive original research to examine the controversies over these films and over cinema more generally. He situates these contestations in the context of regulatory concerns about populations and governance in an early-twentieth-century America grappling with the powerful forces of modernity, in particular, immigration, class formation and conflict, and changing gender roles. Tracing the discourses and practices of cultural and political elites and the responses of the nascent film industry, Grieveson reveals how these interactions had profound effects on the shaping of film content, form, and, more fundamentally, the proposed social function of cinema: how cinema should function in society, the uses to which it might be put, and thus what it could or would be. Policing Cinema develops new perspectives for the understanding of censorship and regulation and the complex relations between governance and culture. In this work, Grieveson offers a compelling analysis of the forces that shaped American cinema and its role in society.